Wire clip.



PATENTED SEPTl l0, 1907.

C. W. SPONSEL.v y

WIRE CLIP.

.APPLICATION FILED JAN.10.1903.

N@ MPH/MM NrrEn STATES PA'rEr ernten*- s f WIRE CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

rasantes sept. io, ree?.

Application iileid January 10, .1903. Serial No. 138,54i1;

action upon the material, andfthe parts of which will be so united and bracedthat a structure of great strength and comparative rigidity and sufficiently resilient for v practical purposes will be produced.

' -In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the preferred form of my improved wireclip, showing the mannerin which it is opened.- Fig.

2 is a plan view of the deviced shown in -Fig. 1. Fig. 3

is 'a'plan view of a modification; and-Figs. 4 and 5 are, respectively, plan and side views of another modification. v 'u Liketnlumerals designate similar parts throughout the several views. Y

Referring to the drawings, the preferred form of my improved wire-clip 'is designated in a general way by" the numeral 5, `and it comprises a central epilv or spring 6, elongated, loop-shaped lever-arms 7 and 8, respectively, constituting the thumb-and-nger grasps o i the clip, and resilient lever-arms 9 and 10, respectively, projecting forward from said central coil, and constituting the clasping part of the clip lever-arm 9 being shown bent at its 'ree end into a ring-shaped jaw 9@ and thesimilar arm 10 into a jaw 10 of somewhat larger area than-the said jaw 9C These rings constitute the clamping-surfaces proper of `the clip, and although preferably employed may be replaced' by other forms of bent ends if desired. v

Heretofore, in many wire-clips the clamping proper may have lateral and torsional motion, resulting frequently in slipping the end4 9 of clamping-arm 9:

beneath the-end oi clamping-arm 10, and consequently destroying the efficiency of the article. 4To prevent* this dislocation of the parts, various means may be pro- I vided, three of A which are illustrated. In the preerred form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the wire is first bent v bent 'into the loop-shaped handle 8, is inserted throughl into the central coil 6, and one end of it is then formed into the loop 7, aiter which the free end of saidwire is passed through the eye of coil 6 and is bent sharply at right angles as at 12, 12, thus forming shoulders at each end of said coil which prevent lateral play of the clamping arm 9. So too, the other end of the wire is the eye of the coil and is similarly bent sharply at `rightangles las l2, 1 3 to form shoulders on each endl o, and closely engaging the coil. In this way the coil, leverarms and clamping parts of the clip are scf-braced and Atied together that lateral motion of' the arms 9 and 10 parts 1l A clip made of one piece of wire having a coil with is prevented, and there is no liability oi one part being thrown outro its proper place and thus impairing the utility of the clip. j

ln the'form represented by Fig. 3 the same result is achieved by carrying the end of the wire after loop 7 has been formed beneath the arm oi the loop adjacent to, and'at on'e side of thecoil 6 as at 14, and then continuing it to form the ring 9,-the other end o the wire projecting from the coil being first bent to orm'loop 8 and then carried above the arm of the loop adjacent to coil 6 as at 15. `In this way the clamping arms 9 and 10 pass respectively, on opposite ends ofthe, coil andbear with spring-pressure against said ends, thus so' uniting moveA laterally and throw one oi the rings below the other will be resisted.

formed yinthe saine manner as in Fig. 3, and the resilient lever-arms 9 and 10 are then coiled around the sides bars as at 16, are carried forward in close engagement grasping-surfaces or clasping jaws 9 and 10.

In all of the views the upper grasping-jaw 9/ is shown as of less diameter than the lower one, the consequence'being that one jaw nests within the other and vslightly within the opening oi said lower jaw. Both jaws may, however, be of the same lsize without departure from the invention.

strong and resilient wire-clip, the elements of which are braced and so tied together that the clamping-arms ful for securingpapers, clothes and other articles, and one that can readily be made either by hand or machinery.

Having thus described ruy invention what l claim is:

its axis across the clip; two eionguted loop-shaped leverone'strand of wire each constituting `the ciiisping partei and two resiiient ciamplng-lever-arms composedof one the clip, such clamping lever-arms passing, respectively,

pressure against said ends, the two arms having at their -ends the coils, one larger than the other.

. In testimony whereof I ax my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y'

' CHARLES W. SIONSEL.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. CAMPBELL, FRANCES E. BLonen'r'r.

the parts that the tendency oi either arm 9 or 10 tov In Figs. 4 and 5 the handle-loops 7 and '8' are first- With the ends of coil 6, and are finally bent into the A -Fro1n what has been stated, it will be seen that a, v

the clip, such ciamping-lever-arms passing respectively"v tends to force the paper or other'article tovbe clamped will not be displaced is produced, one that be usearms constituting the thumb and finger-grasps of the c1ip and two resilient clamping-lever arms composed of strand of wire each, constituting the cinsping mrt of into opposite ends of the coil, und bearing with spring- 

